{"id":200591,"date":"2025-07-05T21:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=200591"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:42:51","slug":"goto-to-miss-g1-climax-35-njpw-announces-match-to-determine-final-a-block-entrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/07\/05\/goto-to-miss-g1-climax-35-njpw-announces-match-to-determine-final-a-block-entrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Goto to miss G1 Climax 35, NJPW announces match to determine final A block entrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-756053303\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Former NJPW World Hvt. Champion Hirooki Goto has been removed from the G1 Climax 35 tournament due to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njpw1972.com\/585056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elbow injury<\/a> he suffered during his IWGP World Hvt. Championship title defense against Zack Sabre Jr. on June 29 at Tanahashi Jam.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NJPW initially announced he was off the July 4 Soul event after Tanahashi Jam due to an elbow injury. It was then announced today that he has been ruled out of the entire G1 Climax 35 tournament because of the same elbow injury. The company also announced that the last participant in the A Block would be determined by a Gauntlet match that would see Tomohiro Ishii vs. Taichi vs. Satoshi Kojima vs. Chase Owens at the July 6 Soul event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are the current G1 Climax 35 blocks:<\/p>\n<p><b><u>A Block<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hirooki Goto (out)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oleg Boltin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yuya Uemura<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yota Tsuji<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Finlay<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evil<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanada<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiroshi Tanahashi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Callum Newman<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryohei Oiwa<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><u>B Block<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Phantasmo<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shota Umino<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shingo Takagi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zack Sabre Jr.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great-O-Khan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gabe Kidd<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ren Narita<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Konosuke Takeshita<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drilla Moloney<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoshi-Hashi<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2193895194\"><div id=\"pwtor-2620736295\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former NJPW World Hvt. Champion Hirooki Goto has been removed from the G1 Climax 35 tournament due to an elbow injury he suffered during his IWGP World Hvt. Championship title defense against Zack Sabre Jr. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/07\/05\/goto-to-miss-g1-climax-35-njpw-announces-match-to-determine-final-a-block-entrant\/\" title=\"Goto to miss G1 Climax 35, NJPW announces match to determine final A block entrant\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Goto_3x2Charlton.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200592,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200591\/revisions\/200592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}